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/*
**********************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 1999, International Business Machines
* Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
**********************************************************************
* ucnv.h:
* External APIs for the ICU's codeset conversion library
* Bertrand A. Damiba
*
* Modification History:
*
* Date Name Description
* 04/04/99 helena Fixed internal header inclusion.
* 05/11/00 helena Added setFallback and usesFallback APIs.
* 06/29/2000 helena Major rewrite of the callback APIs.
*/
/**
* @name Character Conversion C API
*
* Character Conversion C API documentation is still under construction.
* Please check for updates soon.
*/
#ifndef UCNV_H
#define UCNV_H
/* Forward declaring the UConverter structure */
struct UConverter;
typedef struct UConverter UConverter;
#include "unicode/utypes.h"
#include "unicode/ucnv_err.h"
U_CDECL_BEGIN
/*maximum length of the converter names */
#define UCNV_MAX_CONVERTER_NAME_LENGTH 60
#define UCNV_MAX_FULL_FILE_NAME_LENGTH (600+UCNV_MAX_CONVERTER_NAME_LENGTH)
#define UCNV_SI 0x0F /*Shift in for EBDCDIC_STATEFUL and iso2022 states */
#define UCNV_SO 0x0E /*Shift out for EBDCDIC_STATEFUL and iso2022 states */
typedef enum {
UCNV_UNSUPPORTED_CONVERTER = -1,
UCNV_SBCS = 0,
UCNV_DBCS = 1,
UCNV_MBCS = 2,
UCNV_LATIN_1 = 3,
UCNV_UTF8 = 4,
UCNV_UTF16_BigEndian = 5,
UCNV_UTF16_LittleEndian = 6,
UCNV_EBCDIC_STATEFUL = 7,
UCNV_ISO_2022 = 8,
UCNV_LMBCS_1 = 9,
UCNV_LMBCS_2,
UCNV_LMBCS_3,
UCNV_LMBCS_4,
UCNV_LMBCS_5,
UCNV_LMBCS_6,
UCNV_LMBCS_8,
UCNV_LMBCS_11,
UCNV_LMBCS_16,
UCNV_LMBCS_17,
UCNV_LMBCS_18,
UCNV_LMBCS_19,
UCNV_LMBCS_LAST = UCNV_LMBCS_19,
/* Number of converter types for which we have conversion routines. */
UCNV_NUMBER_OF_SUPPORTED_CONVERTER_TYPES = UCNV_LMBCS_LAST+1
} UConverterType;
typedef enum {
UCNV_UNKNOWN = -1,
UCNV_IBM = 0
} UConverterPlatform;
typedef void (*UConverterToUCallback) (
void* context,
UConverterToUnicodeArgs *args,
const char *codePoints,
int32_t length,
UConverterCallbackReason reason,
UErrorCode *);
typedef void (*UConverterFromUCallback) (
void* context,
UConverterFromUnicodeArgs *args,
const UChar* codeUnits,
int32_t length,
UChar32 codePoint, /* HSYS: why can't just use the macros on the code units? */
UConverterCallbackReason reason,
UErrorCode *);
U_CDECL_END
/**
* Character that separates converter names from options and options from each other.
* @see ucnv_open
*/
#define UCNV_OPTION_SEP_CHAR ','
/** String version of UCNV_OPTION_SEP_CHAR. */
#define UCNV_OPTION_SEP_STRING ","
/**
* Character that separates a converter option from its value.
* @see ucnv_open
*/
#define UCNV_VALUE_SEP_CHAR '='
/** String version of UCNV_VALUE_SEP_CHAR. */
#define UCNV_VALUE_SEP_STRING "="
/**
* Converter option for specifying a locale.
* @see ucnv_open
*/
#define UCNV_LOCALE_OPTION_STRING ",locale="
/**
* Creates a UConverter object with the names specified as a C string.
* The actual name will be resolved with the alias file
* using a case-insensitive string comparison that ignores
* the delimiters '-', '_', and ' ' (dash, underscore, and space).
* E.g., the names "UTF8", "utf-8", and "Utf 8" are all equivalent.
* If <code>NULL</code> is passed for the converter name, it will create one with the
* getDefaultName return value.
*
* <p>A converter name for ICU 1.5 and above may contain options
* like a locale specification to control the specific behavior of
* the newly instantiated converter.
* The meaning of the options depends on the particular converter.
* If an option is not defined for or recognized by a given converter, then it is ignored.</p>
*
* <p>Options are appended to the converter name string, with a
* <code>UCNV_OPTION_SEP_CHAR</code> between the name and the first option and
* also between adjacent options.</p>
*
* @param converterName : name of the uconv table, may have options appended
* @param err outgoing error status <TT>U_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ERROR, TABLE_NOT_FOUND</TT>
* @return the created Unicode converter object, or <TT>NULL</TT> if an error occured
* @see ucnv_openU
* @see ucnv_openCCSID
* @see ucnv_close
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
UConverter* U_EXPORT2 ucnv_open (const char *converterName, UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Creates a Unicode converter with the names specified as unicode string. The name should be limited to
* the ASCII-7 alphanumerics range.
* The actual name will be resolved with the alias file
* using a case-insensitive string comparison that ignores
* the delimiters '-', '_', and ' ' (dash, underscore, and space).
* E.g., the names "UTF8", "utf-8", and "Utf 8" are all equivalent.
* If <TT>NULL</TT> is passed for the converter name, it will create one with the
* getDefaultName return value.
* @param converterName : name of the uconv table in a zero terminated Unicode string
* @param err outgoing error status <TT>U_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ERROR, TABLE_NOT_FOUND</TT>
* @return the created Unicode converter object, or <TT>NULL</TT> if an error occured
* @see ucnv_open
* @see ucnv_openCCSID
* @see ucnv_close
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI UConverter* U_EXPORT2 ucnv_openU (const UChar * name,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Creates a UConverter object using a CCSID number.
*
* @param codepage : codepage # of the uconv table
* @param platform : codepage's platform (now only <TT>IBM</TT> supported)
* @param err error status <TT>U_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ERROR, TABLE_NOT_FOUND</TT>
* @return the created Unicode converter object, or <TT>NULL</TT> if and error occured
* @see ucnv_open
* @see ucnv_openU
* @see ucnv_close
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI UConverter* U_EXPORT2 ucnv_openCCSID (int32_t codepage,
UConverterPlatform platform,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Deletes the unicode converter.
*
* @param converter the converter object to be deleted
* @see ucnv_open
* @see ucnv_openU
* @see ucnv_openCCSID
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_close (UConverter * converter);
/**
* Fills in the output parameter, subChars, with the substitution characters
* as multiple bytes.
*
* @param converter: the Unicode converter
* @param subChars: the subsitution characters
* @param len: on input the capacity of subChars, on output the number of bytes copied to it
* @param err: the outgoing error status code.
* If the substitution character array is too small, an
* <TT>U_INDEX_OUTOFBOUNDS_ERROR</TT> will be returned.
* @see ucnv_setSubstChars
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getSubstChars (const UConverter * converter,
char *subChars,
int8_t * len,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Sets the substitution chars when converting from unicode to a codepage. The
* substitution is specified as a string of 1-4 bytes, and may contain <TT>NULL</TT> byte.
* The fill-in parameter err will get the error status on return.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param subChars the substitution character byte sequence we want set
* @param len the number of bytes in subChars
* @param err the error status code. <TT>U_INDEX_OUTOFBOUNDS_ERROR </TT> if
* len is bigger than the maximum number of bytes allowed in subchars
* @see ucnv_getSubstChars
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_setSubstChars (UConverter * converter,
const char *subChars,
int8_t len,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Fills in the output parameter, errBytes, with the error characters from the
* last failing conversion.
*
* @param converter: the Unicode converter
* @param errBytes: the bytes in error
* @param len: on input the capacity of errBytes, on output the number of bytes copied to it
* @param err: the outgoing error status code.
* If the substitution character array is too small, an
* <TT>U_INDEX_OUTOFBOUNDS_ERROR</TT> will be returned.
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getInvalidChars (const UConverter * converter,
char *errBytes,
int8_t * len,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Fills in the output parameter, errChars, with the error characters from the
* last failing conversion.
*
* @param converter: the Unicode converter
* @param errUChars: the UChars in error
* @param len: on input the capacity of errUChars, on output the number of UChars copied to it
* @param err: the outgoing error status code.
* If the substitution character array is too small, an
* <TT>U_INDEX_OUTOFBOUNDS_ERROR</TT> will be returned.
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getInvalidUChars (const UConverter * converter,
UChar *errUChars,
int8_t * len,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Resets the state of stateful conversion to the default state. This is used
* in the case of error to restart a conversion from a known default state.
* it will also empty the internal output buffers.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_reset (UConverter * converter);
/**
* Returns the maximum length of bytes used by a character. This varies between 1 and 4
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @return the maximum number of bytes allowed by this particular converter
* @see ucnv_getMinCharSize
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI int8_t U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getMaxCharSize (const UConverter * converter);
/**
* Returns the minimum byte length for characters in this codepage. This is either
* 1 or 2 for all supported codepages.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @return the minimum number of bytes allowed by this particular converter
* @see ucnv_getMaxCharSize
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI int8_t U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getMinCharSize (const UConverter * converter);
/**
* Returns the display name of the converter passed in based on the Locale passed in,
* in the case the locale contains no display name, the internal ASCII name will be
* filled in.
*
* @param converter the Unicode converter.
* @param displayLocale is the specific Locale we want to localised for
* @param displayName user provided buffer to be filled in
* @param displayNameCapacty size of displayName Buffer
* @param err: outgoing error code.
* @return displayNameLength number of UChar needed in displayName
* @see ucnv_getName
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getDisplayName (const UConverter * converter,
const char *displayLocale,
UChar * displayName,
int32_t displayNameCapacity,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Gets the name of the converter (zero-terminated).
* the name will be the internal name of the converter, the lifetime of the returned
* string will be that of the converter passed to this function.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param err UErrorCode status
* @return the internal name of the converter
* @see ucnv_getDisplayName
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
const char * U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getName (const UConverter * converter, UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Gets a codepage number associated with the converter. This is not guaranteed
* to be the one used to create the converter. Some converters do not represent
* IBM registered codepages and return zero for the codepage number.
* The error code fill-in parameter indicates if the codepage number is available.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param err the error status code.
* the converter is <TT>NULL</TT> or if converter's data table is <TT>NULL</TT>.
* @return If any error occurrs, -1 will be returned otherwise, the codepage number
* will be returned
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getCCSID (const UConverter * converter,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Gets a codepage platform associated with the converter. Currently, only <TT>IBM</TT> is supported
* The error code fill-in parameter indicates if the codepage number is available.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param err the error status code.
* the converter is <TT>NULL</TT> or if converter's data table is <TT>NULL</TT>.
* @return The codepage platform
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI UConverterPlatform U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getPlatform (const UConverter * converter,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
*Gets the type of conversion associated with the converter
* e.g. SBCS, MBCS, DBCS, UTF8, UTF16_BE, UTF16_LE, ISO_2022, EBCDIC_STATEFUL, LATIN_1
* @param converter: a valid, opened converter
* @return the type of the converter
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI UConverterType U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getType (const UConverter * converter);
/**
*Gets the "starter" bytes for the converters of type MBCS
*will fill in an <TT>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</TT> if converter passed in
*is not MBCS.
*fills in an array of boolean, with the value of the byte as offset to the array.
*At return, if TRUE is found in at offset 0x20, it means that the byte 0x20 is a starter byte
*in this converter.
* @param converter: a valid, opened converter of type MBCS
* @param starters: an array of size 256 to be filled in
* @param err: an array of size 256 to be filled in
* @see ucnv_getType
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getStarters(const UConverter* converter,
UBool starters[256],
UErrorCode* err);
/**
* Gets the current calback function used by the converter when illegal or invalid sequence found.
*
* @param converter the unicode converter
* @param action the callback function pointer
* @param context the callback function state
* @see ucnv_setToUCallBack
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getToUCallBack (const UConverter * converter,
UConverterToUCallback *action,
void **context);
/**
* Gets the current callback function used by the converter when illegal or invalid sequence found.
*
* @param converter the unicode converter
* @param action the callback function pointer
* @param context the callback function state
* @see ucnv_setFromUCallBack
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_getFromUCallBack (const UConverter * converter,
UConverterFromUCallback *action,
void **context);
/**
* Gets the current callback function used by the converter when illegal or invalid sequence found.
*
* @param converter the unicode converter
* @param newAction the callback function we want to set.
* @param newContext the new toUnicode callback function state
* @param oldAction the previously assigned callback function pointer
* @param oldContext the new toUnicode callback function state
* @param err The error code status
* @see ucnv_getToUCallBack
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_setToUCallBack (UConverter * converter,
UConverterToUCallback newAction,
void* newContext,
UConverterToUCallback *oldAction,
void** oldContext,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Gets the current callback function used by the converter when illegal or invalid sequence found.
*
* @param converter the unicode converter
* @param newAction the callback function we want to set.
* @param newContext the new fromUnicode callback function state
* @param oldAction the previously assigned callback function pointer
* @param oldContext the new fromUnicode callback function state
* @param err The error code status
* @see ucnv_getFromUCallBack
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucnv_setFromUCallBack (UConverter * converter,
UConverterFromUCallback newAction,
void *newContext,
UConverterFromUCallback *oldAction,
void **oldContext,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Transcodes an array of unicode characters to an array of codepage characters.
* The source pointer is an I/O parameter, it starts out pointing where the function is
* to begin transcoding, and ends up pointing after the first sequence of the bytes
* that it encounters that are semantically invalid.
* if ucnv_setToUCallBack is called with an action other than <TT>STOP</TT>
* before a call is made to this API, <TT>consumed</TT> and <TT>source</TT> should point to the same place
* (unless <TT>target</TT> ends with an imcomplete sequence of bytes and <TT>flush</TT> is <TT>FALSE</TT>).
* the <TT>target</TT> buffer buffer needs to be a least the size of the maximum # of bytes per characters
* allowed by the target codepage.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param target : I/O parameter. Input : Points to the beginning of the buffer to copy
* codepage characters to. Output : points to after the last codepage character copied
* to <TT>target</TT>.
* @param targetLimit the pointer to the end of the <TT>target</TT> array
* @param source the source Unicode character array
* @param sourceLimit the pointer to the end of the source array
* @param offsets if NULL is passed, nothing will happen to it, otherwise it needs to have the same number
* of allocated cells as <TT>target</TT>. Will fill in offsets from target to source pointer
* e.g: <TT>offsets[3]</TT> is equal to 6, it means that the <TT>target[3]</TT> was a result of transcoding <TT>source[6]</TT>
* For output data carried across calls -1 will be placed for offsets.
* @param flush <TT>TRUE</TT> if the buffer is the last buffer of the conversion interation
* and the conversion will finish with this call, FALSE otherwise.
* @param err the error status. <TT>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</TT> will be returned if the
* converter is <TT>NULL</TT>.
* @see ucnv_fromUChars
* @see ucnv_convert
* @see ucnv_getMinCharSize
* @see ucnv_setToUCallBack
* @draft backslash versus Yen sign in shift-JIS
*/
U_CAPI
void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_fromUnicode (UConverter * converter,
char **target,
const char *targetLimit,
const UChar ** source,
const UChar * sourceLimit,
int32_t* offsets,
UBool flush,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Converts an array of codepage characters into an array of unicode characters.
* The source pointer is an I/O parameter, it starts out pointing at the place
* to begin translating, and ends up pointing after the first sequence of the bytes
* that it encounters that are semantically invalid.
* if ucnv_setFromUCallBack is called with an action other than STOP
* before a call is made to this API, consumed and source should point to the same place
* (unless target ends with an imcomplete sequence of bytes and flush is FALSE).
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param target : I/O parameter. Input : Points to the beginning of the buffer to copy
* Unicode characters to. Output : points to after the last UChar copied to target.
* @param targetLimit the pointer to the end of the target array
* @param source the source codepage character array
* @param sourceLimit the pointer to the end of the source array
* @param offsets if NULL is passed, nothing will happen to it, otherwise it needs to have the same number
* of allocated cells as <TT>target</TT>. Will fill in offsets from target to source pointer
* e.g: <TT>offsets[3]</TT> is equal to 6, it means that the <TT>target[3]</TT> was a result of transcoding <TT>source[6]</TT>
* For output data carried across calls -1 will be placed for offsets.
* @param flush TRUE if the buffer is the last buffer and the conversion will finish
* in this call, FALSE otherwise.
* @param err the error code status <TT>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</TT> will be returned if the
* converter is <TT>NULL</TT>, or if <TT>targetLimit</TT> and <TT>sourceLimit</TT> are misaligned.
* @see ucnv_toUChars
* @see ucnv_getNextUChar
* @see ucnv_convert
* @see ucnv_setFromUCallBack
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_toUnicode (UConverter * converter,
UChar ** target,
const UChar * targetLimit,
const char **source,
const char *sourceLimit,
int32_t* offsets,
UBool flush,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Transcodes the source Unicode string to the target string in a codepage encoding
* with the specified Unicode converter. For example, if a Unicode to/from JIS
* converter is specified, the source string in Unicode will be transcoded to JIS
* encoding. The result will be stored in JIS encoding.
* if any problems during conversion are encountered it will SUBSTITUTE with the default (initial)
* substitute characters.
* This function is a more convenient but less efficient version of \Ref{ucnv_fromUnicode}.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param source the <TT>source</TT> Unicode string (zero Terminated)
* @param target the <TT>target</TT> string in codepage encoding (<STRONG>not zero-terminated</STRONG> because some
* codepage do not use '\0' as a string terminator
* @param targetCapacity Input the number of bytes available in the <TT>target</TT> buffer
* @param source the source buffer to convert with
* @param sourceLength the length of the source buffer. If -1 is passed in as the value,
* the source buffer is NULL terminated string and whole source buffer will be converted.
* @param err the error status code.
* <TT>U_INDEX_OUTOFBOUNDS_ERROR</TT> will be returned if the
* the # of bytes provided are not enough for transcoding.
* <TT>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</TT> is returned if the converter is <TT>NULL</TT> or the source or target string is empty.
* <TT>U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR</TT> when <TT>targetSize</TT> turns out to be bigger than <TT>targetCapacity</TT>
* @return number of bytes needed in target, regardless of <TT>targetCapacity</TT>
* @see ucnv_fromUnicode
* @see ucnv_convert
* @draft backslash versus Yen sign in shift-JIS
*/
U_CAPI
int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_fromUChars (const UConverter * converter,
char *target,
int32_t targetCapacity,
const UChar * source,
int32_t sourceLength,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* Transcode the source string in codepage encoding to the target string in
* Unicode encoding. For example, if a Unicode to/from JIS
* converter is specified, the source string in JIS encoding will be transcoded
* to Unicode and placed into a provided target buffer.
* if any problems during conversion are encountered it will SUBSTITUTE with the Unicode REPLACEMENT char
* We recomment, the size of the target buffer needs to be at least as long as the maximum # of bytes per char
* in this character set.
* A zero-terminator will be placed at the end of the target buffer
* This function is a more convenient but less efficient version of \Ref{ucnv_toUnicode}.
* @param converter the Unicode converter
* @param source the source string in codepage encoding
* @param target the target string in Unicode encoding
* @param targetCapacity capacity of the target buffer
* @param sourceSize : Number of bytes in <TT>source</TT> to be transcoded
* @param err the error status code
* <TT>U_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ERROR</TT> will be returned if the
* the internal process buffer cannot be allocated for transcoding.
* <TT>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</TT> is returned if the converter is <TT>NULL</TT> or
* if the source or target string is empty.
* <TT>U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR</TT> when the input buffer is prematurely exhausted and targetSize non-<TT>NULL</TT>.
* @return the number of UChar needed in target (including the zero terminator)
* @see ucnv_getNextUChar
* @see ucnv_toUnicode
* @see ucnv_convert
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_toUChars (const UConverter * converter,
UChar * target,
int32_t targetCapacity,
const char *source,
int32_t sourceSize,
UErrorCode * err);
/********************************
* Will convert a codepage buffer one character at a time.
* This function was written to be efficient when transcoding small amounts of data at a time.
* In that case it will be more efficient than \Ref{ucnv_toUnicode}.
* When converting large buffers use \Ref{ucnv_toUnicode}.
*@param converter an open UConverter
*@param source the address of a pointer to the codepage buffer, will be updated to point after
*the bytes consumed in the conversion call.
*@param points to the end of the input buffer
*@param err fills in error status (see ucnv_toUnicode)
*@return a UChar resulting from the partial conversion of source
*@see ucnv_toUnicode
*@see ucnv_toUChars
*@see ucnv_convert
*@stable
*/
U_CAPI
UChar32 U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getNextUChar (UConverter * converter,
const char **source,
const char *sourceLimit,
UErrorCode * err);
/**************************
* Will convert a sequence of bytes from one codepage to another.
* This is <STRONG>NOT AN EFFICIENT</STRONG> way to transcode.
* use \Ref{ucnv_toUnicode} and \Ref{ucnv_fromUnicode} for efficiency
* @param toConverterName: The name of the converter that will be used to encode the output buffer
* @param fromConverterName: The name of the converter that will be used to decode the input buffer
* @param target: Pointer to the output buffer to write to
* @param targetCapacity: on input contains the capacity of target
* @param source: Pointer to the input buffer
* @param sourceLength: on input contains the capacity of source
* @param err: fills in an error status
* @return will be filled in with the number of bytes needed in target
* @see ucnv_fromUnicode
* @see ucnv_toUnicode
* @see ucnv_fromUChars
* @see ucnv_toUChars
* @see ucnv_getNextUChar
* @draft backslash versus Yen sign in shift-JIS
*/
U_CAPI
int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_convert (const char *toConverterName,
const char *fromConverterName,
char *target,
int32_t targetCapacity,
const char *source,
int32_t sourceLength,
UErrorCode * err);
/**
* SYSTEM API
* Iterates through every cached converter and frees all the unused ones.
*
* @return the number of cached converters successfully deleted
* @stable
* @system
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_flushCache (void);
/**
* provides a string containing the internal name (based on the alias file) of the converter.
* given an index.
* @param n the number of converters available on the system (<TT>[0..ucnv_countAvaiable()]</TT>)
* @return a pointer a string (library owned), or <TT>NULL</TT> if the index is out of bounds.
* @see ucnv_countAvailable
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI
const char * U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getAvailableName (int32_t n);
/**
* returns the number of available converters.
*
* @return the number of available converters
* @see ucnv_getAvailableName
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2 ucnv_countAvailable (void);
/**
* Gives the number of aliases for given converter or alias name.
* Note that additional aliases are recognized by ucnv_open().
* This method only enumerates the listed entries in the alias file.
* @param alias alias name
* @param pErrorCode result of operation
* @return number of names on alias list
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI uint16_t
ucnv_countAliases(const char *alias, UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* Gives the name of the alias at given index of alias list.
* Note that additional aliases are recognized by ucnv_open().
* This method only enumerates the listed entries in the alias file.
* @param alias alias name
* @param n index in alias list
* @param pErrorCode result of operation
* @return returns the name of the alias at given index
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI const char *
ucnv_getAlias(const char *alias, uint16_t n, UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* Fill-up the list of alias names for the given alias.
* Note that additional aliases are recognized by ucnv_open().
* This method only enumerates the listed entries in the alias file.
* @param alias alias name
* @param aliases fill-in list, aliases is a pointer to an array of
* <code>ucnv_countAliases()</code> string-pointers
* (<code>const char *</code>) that will be filled in
* @param pErrorCode result of operation
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void
ucnv_getAliases(const char *alias, const char **aliases, UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* returns a standard name for a given converter name.
*
* @param name original converter name
* @param standard name of the standard governing the names; MIME and IANA
* are such standards
* @return returns the standard converter name;
* if a standard converter name cannot be determined,
* then <code>NULL</code> is returned
*
*/
U_CAPI const char *ucnv_getStandardName(const char *name, const char *standard, UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* returns the current default converter name.
*
* @return returns the current default converter name;
* if a default converter name cannot be determined,
* then <code>NULL</code> is returned
* @see ucnv_setDefaultName
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI const char * U_EXPORT2 ucnv_getDefaultName (void);
/**
* sets the current default converter name.
* The lifetime of the return ptr is that of the library
* @param name: the converter name you want as default (has to appear in alias file)
* @see ucnv_getDefaultName
* @system
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_setDefaultName (const char *name);
/**
* Fixes the backslash character mismapping. For example, in SJIS, the backslash
* character in the ASCII portion is also used to represent the yen currency sign.
* When mapping from Unicode character 0x005C, it's unclear whether to map the
* character back to yen or backslash in SJIS. This function will take the input
* buffer and replace all the yen sign characters with backslash. This is necessary
* when the user tries to open a file with the input buffer on Windows.
* @param source the input buffer to be fixed
* @param sourceLength the length of the input buffer
* @draft
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_fixFileSeparator(const UConverter *cnv, UChar* source, int32_t sourceLen);
/**
* Determines if the converter contains ambiguous mappings of the same
* character or not.
* @return TRUE if the converter contains ambiguous mapping of the same
* character, FALSE otherwise.
* @draft
*/
U_CAPI UBool U_EXPORT2 ucnv_isAmbiguous(const UConverter *cnv);
/**
* Sets the converter to use fallback mapping or not.
* @param cnv The converter to set the fallback mapping usage for.
* @param usesFallback TRUE if the user wants the converter to take advantage of the fallback
* mapping, FALSE otherwise.
* @draft
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2 ucnv_setFallback(UConverter *cnv, UBool usesFallback);
/**
* Determines if the converter uses fallback mappings or not.
* @return TRUE if the converter uses fallback, FALSE otherwise.
* @draft
*/
U_CAPI UBool U_EXPORT2 ucnv_usesFallback(const UConverter *cnv);
#endif
/*_UCNV*/